Name: | MONDARA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | |
Completed: | 02/1921 |
Builder: | J & D Morris Ltd |
Yard: | Pelaw Main |
Yard Number: | 69 |
Dimensions: | 371grt, 148nrt, 135.2 x 23.6 x 10.0ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (17 & 34 x 24ins), 48rhp; (1938: Oil Engine, 4SC, 6cyl (11.7 x 19.7ins)) |
Engines by: | GT Grey & Co Ltd, South Shields; (1938: Waggon-u-Masch AG, Gorlitz) |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 145412 |
History: | |
06/1921 | Warden, Stewart & Orr, Belfast; registered at Belfast |
1924 | Stewart & Orr, Belfast |
1931 | Richard England Steamship Co Ltd, Cardiff |
1935 | P le Louarn & F Ollivier, Paimpol, France |
1947 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1938: Converted to an oil engine |
1940: Converted to a minesweeper by the French Navy | |
03/07/1940: Seized by The Admiralty at Southampton | |
11/1940: Converted to a cable looplayer | |
06/1942: Beached at Yarmouth, IoW, after an air attack | |
Subsequently laid up and used for cable storage | |
1945: Returned to owners | |
1947: Condemned and broken up at Brest |